Psalms 37:18-29

¹⁸Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is — to the age.

¹⁹They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

²⁰But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

²¹The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

²²For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

²³From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

²⁴When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

²⁵Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

²⁶All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

²⁷Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

²⁸For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

²⁹The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.